“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.” — James Wood Copy Share Image
Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive,… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable… — William Safire Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
I really just want to tell great stories, and one of my truest beliefs that I hold onto very tight is that… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
“There he is, bent over the page, with a monocle in his right eye, wholly devoted to the noble but rugged task… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and… — Maria Lenhart Copy Share Image
“You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live your life… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.” — Derrolyn Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
“The quintessential thing to remember is no matter how good of a writer and storyteller you are, you are going to piss… — K.H. Koehler Copy Share Image
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes… — Melvin Burgess Copy Share Image
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you're looking for an author who can deliver high-octane thrills every time and a character who is NOT to be messed… — Mark Billingham Copy Share Image
“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Books were my church but even more my native land, my place of refuge, my DP camp. I was an exile early… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal… — Vanessa Trinita Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
